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Hurray! Prof Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the Realist-Idealist Scholar, is 82

Posted By: adminon: January 07, 2024In: LifeworldTags: CHINA, Concept of Medium Powers, Israel, NADECO, NIIA, NPSA, Realism, TAC, UI, UNILAG, USA, Western powersNo CommentsViews:

By Hassan A. Saliu Professor Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the son of a priest and politician, is an academic colossus whose impacts on various aspects of Nigerian life cannot be captured in a... Read more

Activists Set to Memorialise Salihu Bappa in Abuja

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2024In: LifeworldTags: Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, Cde Salihu Bappa, Development Communication, Dramatic ArtsNo CommentsViews:

Set aside January 11th, 2024 for Salihu Muhammad Bappa, the late Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria academic. Friends, colleagues and associates have democratically decoded to memorialise the in... Read more

How Rifkatu Manasseh Turaki Died in Kaduna on New Year Eve

Posted By: adminon: January 01, 2024In: LifeworldTags: Cde Manasseh Turaki, Dr. Rifkatu Manasseh Turaki, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Heaven, KASUNo CommentsViews:

According to Cde Manasseh Turaki, the husband, in a brief telephone chat with Intervention earlier today, the family woke up to it on Sunday, December 31st, 2023. The wife, Rifkatu Manasseh... Read more

The North, Marxism and ‘Jibo Must Pay’ On Our Minds at the Joyous Night for D. S. Ibrahim @ 85

Posted By: adminon: December 23, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Algerian War of Independence, Danlami Samuel, France, Marxism, Old North, Post-positivism, Social theory, The Communist Manifesto, ‘Jibo Must Pay’, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:

It was a joyous but also painful evening. Joyous because junior brothers, grandchildren, in-laws and friends of the family gathered to celebrate a remarkable individual at 85. Painful becaus... Read more

Nigerian, Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu, Breaks Into Cambridge University Establishment, Elected 7th Wolfson College President

Posted By: adminon: December 17, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Cambridge University, NIGERIA, Oxford, Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, UCL, University of Benin, University of Strathclyde, Wolfson CollegeNo CommentsViews:

Tense and unstable domestically from unproductive quarrelling over pittances left by the lords of neoliberal globalisation, Nigeria nevertheless never tires in exceptionalism on a global sca... Read more

Henry Kissinger Dies @ 100

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2023In: LifeworldTags: 'Liberal World Order', Geopolitics, Harvard, Joseph Nye, President Xi Jinping, Princeton, US foreign policy, USSR, ‘Old friend’No CommentsViews:

The world has lost one of the most influential theorist and practitioner of foreign policy in the 20th and 21st century. He is Dr Henry Kissinger, a former American Secretary of State. Befor... Read more

Tribute to My Retiring Lecturers in Nigeria’s BUK (2): Salisu Yusuf

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2023In: LifeworldTags: African politics, BUK, Destiny, Dr Bawa Gusau, International Relations, Marxist, PhDNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu There is something about destiny for those who believe in it. It drives and sets limits on how far one can go in life. Sometimes we dream and plan big and do whatev... Read more

Hold It! Nyerere, Former Tanzanian President and Politician, To Be Canonised

Posted By: adminon: November 18, 2023In: LifeworldTags: 'Ujaama', Africa, Diocese of Dar Es Salam, Politician, Power, President, TanzaniaNo CommentsViews:

Former president of Tanzania, Dr. Julius Nyerere is to be canonised. He is raising the stakes in politics and exercise of power in Africa. Although he has been a politician and a president,... Read more

Tribute to My Retiring Lecturers in Nigeria’s BUK (1)

Posted By: adminon: November 14, 2023In: LifeworldTags: 'African Political Thought', Apartheid, ASUU Chairman, BUK, Marxist, PhD, Political Theory, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu M.M. Yusuf As An Activist Scholar Mallam Muazu Mohammed Yusuf retired from the services of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) in April, 2023 after putting in forty-two yea... Read more

Prof. Liasu Adele Jinadu is 80: He is Larger Than His Frame

Posted By: adminon: November 06, 2023In: LifeworldTags: AAPS, ASCON, Billy Dudley Annual Lecture, CASS, Chief MKO Abiola, INEC, IPSA, Lagos affairs, LASU, Prof Nnoli, UI, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:

By Prof. Hassan A. Saliu There are scholars and their areas of strength, weakness and ultimately, their trademarks. Some are policy oriented in their engagement and have therefore made their... Read more